Mental Health Practitioner

1 week ago

Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity for a 12-month secondment post for a Band 6 mental health practitioner to join the team, based in Folkestone and covering South Kent Coast (Shepway, Dover, Deal).

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated practitioner to join our established multi-disciplinary team. Experience of working and supporting clients who have experienced psychosis, along with families and carers are essential.

The successful candidate will need to embrace and work within the ethos and values of Early Intervention in Psychosis Services.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for the assessment of newly referred adults and children from aged 14 years with First Episode Psychosis and the subsequent presentation of findings to the wider team. To work with diagnostic uncertainty, providing ongoing comprehensive assessments and outcome monitoring for all service users within caseload. To undertake risk assessments regularly, including all other health professionals/agencies involved. To ensure that risk assessments are regularly updated, are meaningful and are reflected in care plans. Manage a caseload of clients first episode psychosis with complex needs, using evidence based / client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. Provide a professional contribution, supervision and advice to a multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality mental health services with meet existing new policies, practice and standards. To act as care co-ordinator under the CPA process as appropriate To provide leadership for students and / or junior staff, through supervision and appraisal. To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of MDT services, holding responsibility for defined projects. To regularly supervise students on practice placements To participate in the duty and assessment function covering East Kent EIP. To provide profession specific assessments and interventions for the wider team as required

Working for our organisation

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
 We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
 To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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